Undergrowth is on view at County Hall Pottery, London 📍 View the photo gallery & read more: cnow.site/undergrowth Exhibited artists: Elizabeth Jackson, Emily Stapleton Jefferis, Jo Pearl, Lisa Hellrup, Meichen Chen, Mingshu Li, Raphael Emine, Safia Hijos, Sisse Holst Pedersen Curated by Elizabeth

I’ve written something to accompany this #ceramics exhibition…it includes mention of lichen and a potters wasp in relation to ceramic practice

Bit closer to the lichen to see the hypha #microscope #fungifriends

Start as you mean to go on…considering lichens #fungifriends

This weekend…open studio…in East London!

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Studio visits and self imposed reading list for ‘Undergrowth’

If you are in London come to our studio open 29/30th Nov…artists talk each day 2pm

A night time teapot street find…

Making clayey soil from across borders into grog for #icontainmultitudes

Almost imperceptible rainbow…

Teaching several wild clay courses next year in London… @citylit.bsky.social Starts 1st March 2026 www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/fora... and later in June at WAES.

Also mentoring @citylit.bsky.social for a year long programme www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/cera...

The reach on Bluesky is limited but on the off chance…the next mould making course I’m teaching @wmc-adultlearning.bsky.social starts 22nd November! www.wmcollege.ac.uk/course-detai...

Experimenting with turning London clay into grog and tonally addition to white stoneware #icontainmultitudes

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Fun was had bat detecting in Braunton @batconservation.bsky.social

Experimental ceramics @citylit.bsky.social the seed inclusions have sprouted contributing to the surface of layered clay

Hiding things awkwardly under awkward things…

Reading this is another reminder of the difficulties I had/have with ambiguous language on tests and forms. In the exam i would fixate on this instead of answering the questions…I would know the answers but couldn’t work out what the questions wanted from me.

Accidental clay poem

Small pop up exhibition on our studio_10|11 May 12-5pm - Leyton London sculptural ceramics exhibition

Processing London clay donated by Golden Earth Studio…my joy was unmatched by others.

It popped into my head…the memory of our family dog hiding rich tea biscuits in the garden 🤎

We are looking for a new studio member to join us at Cultivate Artists Studio, a small group of clay-based artists. Ideally the new member should have a practice within the field of sculptural ceramics The studio is based in a railway arch in London, Leyton (E10)…DM for more details!

Dividing up the clay spoils between our members…gifted to our Cultivate Artists Studio by Golden Earth Studio from a construction site #londonclay.

The joy of organising studio ceramic materials.

After work walk…glossed over foliage

Scaffolded London Planes #stillpoint

Claimed by some to be the oldest tree in the city of London, it’s possible that this London Plane tree was a sapling in the second half of the 18th Century- on the corner of Wood Street Cheapside #stillpoint

Collected galls…got overly excited by the gall wasps’ life cycle…going to make iron gall ink…

The sky is giving apocalyptic vibes…

Where all the ceramics peeps at?!?

Start the weekend with a potters wasp